If You Think You've Seen Every Christmas Movie, These 17 Hidden Gems Will Prove You Wrong

We each cognize the Christmas heavy-hitters — Home Alone, Elf, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Love Actually — the ones EVERYONE is streaming. But what astir the movies cipher ever talks about? The cult classics? The ones for cinephiles?

I already made a BuzzFeed station astir underrated and underappreciated Christmas films (go cheque it out!), but erstwhile it went public, the comments exploded with radical yelling, 'UM, YOU MISSED MY FAVORITE!!!' And honestly…fair. Y'all pulled up with a full sleigh-load of underappreciated, forgotten, and delightfully unhinged vacation movies I didn’t adjacent touch. So present we are: Part 2 — a festive roundup of the Christmas movies you curse by. The ones others mightiness not know, but decidedly should. Let's dive into the vacation magic (and mayhem). 🎄✨

1. "Surviving Christmas with Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, and Christina Applegate is hilarious — and weirdly underrated. I showed it to my hubby erstwhile we archetypal started dating, and present it’s portion of our yearly Christmas lineup."

— boringcadet85

"I stumbled connected it 1 twelvemonth connected HBO and watched it purely due to the fact that of the formed — and ended up loving it. I showed it to my parents, my husband, and a fewer friends, and nary of them had adjacent heard of it! It’s a funny, touching communicative that delves into divorce, azygous parenting, and uncovering family. I’ve already watched it doubly this period due to the fact that it’s conscionable that saccharine and hilarious."

— Jane Dough

2. "I'm besides obsessed with this Hallmark adaptation of The Nine Lives of Christmas. It follows a jaded vet pupil who swears she has zero clip for love…until she ends up falling for a section firefighter who adopted a feline and desperately needs her help. Truly highest cozy-movie energy."

— lunaamethyst8124

3. "Babes successful Toyland (1986) is my implicit favourite movie of each time!"

— lunaamethyst8124

"I emotion Drew Barrymore’s Babes successful Toyland! And honestly, to this day, I inactive usage that opus to retrieve however to spell 'Cincinnati.'"

— Webbyyy

4. "No 1 remembers Toys? It's astonishing — Robin Williams, Joan Cusack… and an perfectly slayer soundtrack!"

— t4e20e269f

"The soundtrack is amazing!"

— uniquetable166

5. "Anna and the Apocalypse! A Christmas zombie philharmonic acceptable successful the UK? Yes. Absolutely yes. It’s got each the charm of the holidays, with conscionable capable gore and chaos to support it from tipping into saccharine territory."

— originalcan965

"I was hoping idiosyncratic would accidental this movie. How could you not emotion a zombie philharmonic acceptable astatine Christmas time?"

— heathermorris195

6. “Bernard and the Genie — an perfectly silly, chaotic small gem starring Alan Cumming, Lenny Henry, and Rowan Atkinson.”

— uniquetable166

"It’s decidedly dated (like astir vacation movies), but it’s a batch of amusive with a genuinely saccharine Christmas connection astatine the extremity — adjacent my evangelical person loved it."

— madeleinemagillb

7. “I’m shocked nary 1 mentioned Santa Claus: The Movie (1985). If I didn’t ain it connected DVD, I’d curse I imagined it. It’s adorable and axenic puerility nostalgia.”

— greensinger43

"I emotion that movie! I retrieve seeing it successful the theatre erstwhile I was little, and watching it each twelvemonth for a agelong time."

— artisticdeer308

8. "The Family Stone (2005) has been a staple connected our Christmas playlist for years. The formed is stacked, the publication is fantastic, and the quotes unrecorded rent-free successful my caput each vacation season. Highly recommend!"

— moncynnes

"I ever ticker this one. It was peculiarly bittersweet this year. 😢"

— shellsbells686

9. "If you're a instrumentality of the old-school stop-motion classics, Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town is chaotic — Santa virtually runs from the law, defeats fascism, befriends a god, and lives beingness arsenic a fugitive. It’s freaking awesome."

— ya_boi

10. “Last Christmas perfectly gutted me, but it’s specified a bully film. I’ve lone watched it erstwhile due to the fact that it wrecked maine emotionally, but if you privation a Christmas movie that isn’t each holly-jolly, I earnestly urge it.”

— famousphone424

11. “The Muppet Christmas Carol — hands down the best, funniest, and astir charming mentation of the Dickens classic.”

— charlieweber1

12. "I inactive emotion Ernest Saves Christmas. It's cheesy and ridiculous and heart-warming."

— jungumper

13. "For me, it’s the movie Dutch with Ed O’Neill and Ethan Embry."

— snarknado

"It's precise overlooked and underrated."

— qtiplord

14. "Trapped successful Paradise (1994) with Nicolas Cage, Dana Carvey, and Jon Lovitz. It's implicit chaos and a classic."

— melissap61

15. "The Holiday is the cleanable rom-com and conveniently revolves astir Christmas."

— j458091739

16. “Tokyo Godfathers by Satoshi Kon — an perfectly heartwarming, funny, chaotic found-family communicative acceptable astatine Christmas.”

— rdplaty

17. "How the heck did y’all miss The Ref? It’s genuinely 1 of my favourite non-traditional Christmas movies."

— jimzdat

Alright, your crook — what’s the astir underrated Christmas movie I inactive someway missed? Or did I yet notation your fave? Drop it successful the comments… and who knows, possibly Part 3 is coming 👀🎄🎅🧑‍🎄

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Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.